A018
British Modern AFV Bin set
£11.00

The Chieftain Armoured Repair & Recovery Vehicle (ARRV) was a conversion of the earlier ARV Mk-5 (C067) which added a hydraulic crane, controls and revised stowage. This version of Chieftain served from the introduction of the Challenger-1 MBT, through Gulf War-1, all NATO operations, Gulf War-2, and into the late 2000+ era. In 2008 only a few remain in non service support roles, and service with overseas users

Spartan was originally intended as the APC for specialist assault troops, and is now used to transport a variety of special teams, such as weapons teams with LTM, Milan, Radar etc and REME, Signals and Engineer specialists. The Spartan is still in service in all British Army Theatres of operation, including Operation Telic in Iraq 2003

Samson is the recovery vehicle specially designed for use with the other CVR(T) family members. This 3 man crew vehicle has a rear mouted earth anchor, internal winch and comprehensive recovery equipment.The Samson is still in service in all British Army Theatres of operation.

This is the standard configuration FV180 Combat Engineering Tractor (CET) whichis designed to carry out digging, recovery, liftng and river bank preperation tasks in a combat zone. The vehicle is of aluminium construction and is fully amphibious, using tracks and a pair of hydrojets for propulsion.An unusual feature is that the two man crew sit ‘back to back’ in the special cupola and either can fully contol the vehicle and equipment.The CET entered service with the British Army in 1978 and still serves to the present day